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Numbers improving for Holland
After more than a year of reshaping, identity crisis and bad news, the law firm's revenue and net income grow as it prepares to pick a new leader.

Zapata gets buyout offer by e-mail
An investment group says it's serious in taking over the company, which the Glazers are major shareholders.

Bank sues own executive
South Financial wants to stop a Mercantile president from launching a new bank.

Justice Department starts seizing domain names
The government sees Web sites tied to crimes as fair game.

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SILVER LINING IS STICKY: Business spending kept in check by the possibility of war and consumers kept at home by a snowstorm helped keep the U.S. economy subdued, says the Federal Reserve. Hardware sales saw a silver lining, the central bank noted: Fears of terrorism and the snow in the Northeast boosted the sales of duct tape, plastic and shovels. The central bank said that business spending, the key missing ingredient in the economic recovery, continued to lag in the early part of the year.


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